Posted on 09/08/2023 4:31:49 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
A county in eastern China is offering couples a “reward” of 1,000 yuan ($137) if the bride is aged 25 or younger, the latest in a series of measures to incentivise young people to get married amid rising concern over a declining national birthrate.
The notice, which was published on Changshan county’s official WeChat account last week, said the reward was to promote “age-appropriate marriage and childbearing” for first marriages. It also included a series of childcare, fertility and education subsidies for couples who have children.
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Wow, somebody knows what a woman is.
Age 25 means they’re facing reality. Women’s fertility declines at that age. Everyone celebrating their daughters career is advancing the cause of killing a nation.
With the huge shortage of young women in China, the groom probably had to pay a lot more just to get her.
Just like in the West, if they want women to get married and have children, then they need to go back to the old ways, which was to give women that option...and only that option (with a few exceptions, of course, but very limited).
In Shanghai today the birthrate for women of child bearing age is .7. Each woman has .7 children while replacement rate is 2.1.
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